About
Mathilukal ('Walls') is a free adaptation of the novelette of the same name, written by the celebrated Malayalam writer, Vaikom Muhammad Basheer. Autobiographical in character, it is set against the background of India’s freedom struggle in the ’40s when he was serving a term of imprisonment in the Trivandrum Central Jail. When the film opens, we see Basheer in a police lock-up, quite at home in the company of a few petty criminals. He has been languishing there for more than a year now without a trial.
Director
Writer
Producer
Music
Studio
Adoor Gopalakrishnan Productions
Original Title
മതിലുകൾ
Original Language
ML
Cast
Full credits →M
Mammootty
Vaikom Muhammad Basheer
M
Murali
Basheer's friend
R
Ravi Vallathol
Razzaq
T
Thilakan
Jail warder
S
Sreenath
Jailor
K
Karamana Janardanan Nair
Karamana
M
M R Gopakumar
K
K. P. A. C. Azeez
Inspector
B
Babu Namboothiri
J
Jagannatha Varma
Judge
K
KPAC Lalitha
Narayani(Voice)
V
Vembayam Thampi
Thorappan
B
B K Nair
Ammavan
